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Hutinger, Patricia L. – 1998
This final report describes the Technology Assessment Software Package (TASP) Project, which produced developmentally appropriate technology assessment software for children from 18 months through 8 years of age who have moderate to severe disabilities that interfere with their interaction with people, objects, tasks, and events in their…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities
Soto, Gloria; And Others – 1992
This study investigated whether a person with profound mental retardation could effectively learn specific requests using two different communication modes, both including the same set of graphic symbols. It also sought to compare whether the participant showed a preference for one modality over the other and to determine whether the participant…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences
Ledford, Bruce R.; Ledford, Suzanne Y. – 1985
This study investigated whether grade six students' self-esteem could be affected by the presentation of a selected stimulus below the threshold of conscious awareness via the medium of a specially prepared paper. It also investigated whether any statistically significant differences existed between the effects on self-esteem of a selected…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Cues, Figural Aftereffects
Iaccino, James F.; Spirek, Pamela – 1988
Previous research has demonstrated that bizarre imagery facilitates long-term recall of noun pairs. A study investigated the effects of bizarreness when more pronounced delays were used. Subjects, 40 introductory psychology students from Illinois Benedictine College, were shown 30 plausible and 30 bizarre scenes at a viewing distance of…
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Figural Aftereffects, Long Term Memory, Perception Tests
Martin, David W. – 1985
The paper discusses a number of issues concerning the practical usefulness of cognitive psychology research, and presents a case study of pilot training methods to illustrate a model of research processes that produces outcomes which contribute to both basic and applied research goals. Research studies are described as varying in the degree to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Simulation, Educational Experiments, Educational Research
Bowers, P. G.; And Others – 1984
A study investigated whether a visual selective attention deficit with its presumed basis in slow visual processing referred to the same phonological recoding deficit, or whether they were two independent sources of reading disability. Subjects were children aged 7 to 15 referred to a university clinic (the Waterloo Child Assessment…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Assessment

Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Hunt, Dennis – 1976
Individual differences in perceptual information processing were tested using 327 ten year old children, with verbal tasks representing successive information processing and spatial tasks representing simultaneous information processing. Three sets of tasks, (1) visual/reconstruction (V/R), (2) visual/verbal (V/VL), and (3) verbal/reconstruction…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics
Uzgiris, Ina C. – 1977
This paper describes seven interrelated studies concerned with children's understanding of sequential actions and with the effects of observing a model on this understanding. A total of 546 elementary and secondary school students served as subjects for the studies. The tasks for all of the studies involved deriving the pattern for a sequence from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Fry, Edward B. – 1963
Teaching machines and programed instruction represent new methods in education, but they are based on teaching principles established before the development of media technology. Today programed learning materials based on the new technology enjoy increasing popularity for several reasons: they apply sound psychological theories; the materials can…
Descriptors: Branching, Constructed Response, Individual Differences, Learning Theories
Ball, John, Ed.; Byrnes, Francis C., Ed. – 1960
Under the sponsorship of the National Project in Agricultural Communications, a series of 14 lessons by various authors has been compiled to serve as a reader or training manual in the field of visual communications. Several models of communications are outlined and evaluated. Many studies which concern themselves with the concepts of source,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Communications, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Zirkel, Perry Alan; Greene, John F. – 1974
The Cultural Attitude Scales represent a modular approach to the measurement of cultural attitudes and knowledge with respect to the Puerto Rican, Anglo-American, and Black-American cultures. They are applicable to programs which propose to enhance ethnic identity or cross-cultural understanding among any one or more of these three ethnic groups.…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitudes, Blacks, Cross Cultural Studies
Carver, Ronald P. – 1969
The question of whether pupil diameter indicates information processing load during reading was investigated in three experiments involving 24 college students reading passages of varying difficulty. A TV camera and monitor, together with a video-recorder, were used to measure the diameter of the pupil under a reading condition and under three…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Measurement
Meissner, Judith A.; And Others – 1972
The ETS Matched Pictures test was used in the longitudinal study to measure children's comprehension of certain grammatical features, such as past and future tenses, negation and prepositions. The task materials for both I and II consist of a set of cards, with each card having a pair of black and white pictures. Both pictures in a pair contain…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
Halverson, Lynn H. – 1968
Practical information for using a variety of pictures in the geography classroom is provided. Although pictures which depict cultural and natural landscape conditions are readily available, the methods by which pictures should be used in the classroom to produce the greatest impact on learning need to be carefully considered by the teacher. This…
Descriptors: Captions, Classification, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Dattilo, John – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1987
The leisure preferences of a seven-year-old boy with severe mental retardation were systematically analyzed through the application of a computerized assessment procedure. A switch-activated microcomputer and a computer program designed to interpret the switch activations enabled the boy to choose among three leisure activities: auditory, visual,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Auditory Stimuli, Case Studies